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

After dinner and my rather unsuccessful description of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to try to discover a video that may help my children much better understand what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I discovered this charming and brief music video about onomatopoeia. Ill caution you, the song is kind of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..

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