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 one of Next Vistas lots of student video development contests.

Every night my daughters (ages 4 and 5) ask us all kinds of intriguing questions. Some of them are about things that I havent believed about in a long time. Some of them arent easy to address in a method that they can comprehend.

After dinner and my rather not successful explanation 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 found this brief and adorable video about onomatopoeia. Ill caution you, the song is type of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..