After supper and my rather unsuccessful description of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to attempt to discover a video that may help my daughters much better understand what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I discovered this charming and brief music video about onomatopoeia. Ill caution you, the tune is kind of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..

On a related note, Next Vista for Learning hosts a fantastic video description of onomatopoeia. The video was produced by a high school trainee for among Next Vistas lots of trainee video development contests.

Every night my children (ages 4 and 5) ask us all kinds of interesting concerns. Some of them have to do with things that I have not considered in a long time. Some of them arent simple to answer in a way that they can comprehend. And some of them are a little bit of both. That was case one night last week when my five-year-old asked, “whats onomatopoeia indicate?” I did my best to discuss that it is a word like “moo” that is produced from the noise that it makes..