Every night my children (ages 4 and 5) ask all of us sort of interesting questions. A few of them are about things that I havent thought about in a long period of time. A few of them arent easy to answer in a manner 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 imply?” I did my finest to describe that it is a word like “moo” that is produced from the noise that it makes..

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

After dinner and my rather unsuccessful explanation of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to look for a video that may help my daughters much better comprehend what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I found this cute and short music video about onomatopoeia. Ill warn you, the tune is kind of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..