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

On an associated note, Next Vista for Learning hosts a fantastic video explanation of onomatopoeia. The video was produced by a high school student for among Next Vistas lots of student video creation contests.

Every night my daughters (ages 4 and 5) ask us all kinds of fascinating concerns. A few of them are about things that I havent believed about in a long time. Some of them arent easy to address in a manner that they can understand. And some of them are a little bit of both. That was case one night recently when my five-year-old asked, “whats onomatopoeia imply?” I did my finest to discuss that it is a word like “moo” that is created from the noise that it makes..