After dinner and my rather not successful description of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to attempt to find a video that might help my daughters much better understand what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I found this short and charming music video about onomatopoeia. Ill alert you, the song is sort of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..

On an associated 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.

Every night my daughters (ages 4 and 5) ask us all kinds of interesting questions. A few of them have to do with things that I havent considered in a long period of time. Some of them arent easy to answer in such a way that they can comprehend. And a few of them are a bit of both. That was case one night recently when my five-year-old asked, “whats onomatopoeia imply?” I did my best to discuss that it is a word like “moo” that is developed from the sound that it makes..