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

After dinner and my rather unsuccessful description of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to look for a video that may assist my daughters better comprehend what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I found this brief and charming video about onomatopoeia. Ill caution you, the song is kind of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..

Every night my children (ages 4 and 5) ask all of us type of fascinating questions. A few of them are about things that I have not thought of in a long period of time. Some of them arent easy to address in a manner that they can understand. And a few of them are a little both. That was case one night last week when my five-year-old asked, “whats onomatopoeia indicate?” I did my finest to describe that it is a word like “moo” that is developed from the noise that it makes..