After supper and my rather unsuccessful description of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to search for a video that might help my children better understand what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I found this short and adorable video about onomatopoeia. Ill alert you, the tune is type of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..

On a related note, Next Vista for Learning hosts a terrific video description of onomatopoeia. The video was produced by a high school student for among Next Vistas numerous student video development contests.

Every night my daughters (ages 4 and 5) ask all of us kinds of intriguing questions. A few of them are about things that I havent thought of in a very long time. Some of them arent easy to answer in such a way that they can understand. And some of them are a bit of both. That was case one night recently when my five-year-old asked, “whats onomatopoeia suggest?” I did my finest to discuss that it is a word like “moo” that is developed from the noise that it makes..