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

Every night my daughters (ages 4 and 5) ask us all kinds of interesting questions. Some of them have to do with things that I havent thought of in a long time. Some of them arent simple to answer in a method that they can understand. And a few of them are a bit of both. That was case one night last week when my five-year-old asked, “whats onomatopoeia mean?” I did my finest to explain that it is a word like “moo” that is created from the noise that it makes..

After dinner and my rather unsuccessful description 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 brief and cute video about onomatopoeia. Ill alert you, the tune is type of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..