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

After dinner and my rather unsuccessful description of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to try to discover a video that might assist my children better comprehend what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I found this adorable and short video about onomatopoeia. Ill caution you, the song is sort of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..

Every night my daughters (ages 4 and 5) ask all of us sort of interesting questions. Some of them are about things that I have not considered in a long period of time. A few of them arent simple to answer in a method 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 discuss that it is a word like “moo” that is developed from the sound that it makes..