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

After dinner and my somewhat not successful explanation of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to look for a video that might help my daughters much better understand what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I found this cute and short music video about onomatopoeia. Ill warn you, the song is kind of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..

Every night my children (ages 4 and 5) ask us all type of interesting questions. A few of them have to do with things that I have not thought about in a long time. Some of them arent simple to address in a manner that they can understand. And a few 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 finest to explain that it is a word like “moo” that is produced from the noise that it makes..