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

Every night my children (ages 4 and 5) ask all of us kinds of fascinating questions. Some of them are about things that I have not considered in a very long time. A few of them arent simple to address in a manner that they can comprehend. And a few of them are a bit of both. That was case one night recently when my five-year-old asked, “whats onomatopoeia indicate?” I did my best to explain that it is a word like “moo” that is created from the noise that it makes..

On a related 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 lots of student video creation contests.