On an associated note, Next Vista for Learning hosts a great video explanation of onomatopoeia. The video was produced by a high school student for among Next Vistas numerous trainee video creation contests.

After dinner and my rather not successful description of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to search for a video that might help my daughters much better comprehend what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I discovered this short and adorable video about onomatopoeia. Ill warn you, the tune is sort of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..

Every night my children (ages 4 and 5) ask all of us sort of intriguing questions. Some of them are about things that I havent thought of in a very long time. Some of them arent simple to answer in a method that they can understand. And a few 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 best to describe that it is a word like “moo” that is created from the noise that it makes..