Every night my daughters (ages 4 and 5) ask us all type of intriguing questions. Some of them have to do with things that I have not thought about in a long time. Some of them arent easy to respond to in a manner that they can comprehend. And some of them are a bit of both. That was case one night recently when my five-year-old asked, “whats onomatopoeia indicate?” I did my best to describe that it is a word like “moo” that is created from the noise that it makes..

After dinner and my rather not successful explanation of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to look for a video that might assist my children much better comprehend what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I found this cute and brief video about onomatopoeia. Ill alert you, the song is type of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..

On a related note, Next Vista for Learning hosts an excellent video explanation of onomatopoeia. The video was produced by a high school trainee for among Next Vistas many trainee video development contests.