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 many trainee video production contests.

Every night my daughters (ages 4 and 5) ask all of us type of interesting questions. A few of them have to do with things that I have not considered in a long time. Some of them arent simple to address in such a way that they can comprehend. And a few of them are a little both. That was case one night last week when my five-year-old asked, “whats onomatopoeia suggest?” I did my best to discuss that it is a word like “moo” that is developed from the noise that it makes..

After dinner and my somewhat not successful explanation of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to search for a video that may help my children much better comprehend what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I found this charming and brief music video about onomatopoeia. Ill alert you, the tune is kind of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..