On an associated note, Next Vista for Learning hosts an excellent video description of onomatopoeia. The video was produced by a high school trainee for one of Next Vistas lots of trainee video creation contests.

Every night my children (ages 4 and 5) ask us all kinds of fascinating questions. Some of them are about things that I havent thought about in a long time. Some of them arent simple to answer in a method that they can understand.

After dinner and my somewhat not successful description of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to try to find a video that might help my children much better comprehend what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I discovered this short and charming music video about onomatopoeia. Ill alert you, the tune is kind of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..