Every night my children (ages 4 and 5) ask us all kinds of intriguing concerns. Some of them are about things that I havent thought of in a long period of time. A few of them arent simple to address in a manner that they can comprehend. And some of them are a little both. That was case one night last week when my five-year-old asked, “whats onomatopoeia mean?” I did my finest to discuss that it is a word like “moo” that is produced from the sound 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 many student video creation contests.

After dinner and my somewhat not successful description of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to try to discover a video that might help my daughters better comprehend what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I found this cute and short video about onomatopoeia. Ill warn you, the tune is type of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..