After supper and my rather unsuccessful explanation of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to look for a video that might help my daughters much better comprehend what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I found this cute and short music video about onomatopoeia. Ill alert you, the song is kind of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..

Every night my daughters (ages 4 and 5) ask all of us sort of interesting questions. Some of them are about things that I havent believed about in a long period of time. Some of them arent easy to respond to in a manner that they can comprehend. And a few of them are a bit of both. That was case one night last week when my five-year-old asked, “whats onomatopoeia mean?” I did my best to describe that it is a word like “moo” that is created from the noise that it makes..

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