After dinner and my somewhat not successful explanation of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to search for a video that may help my children much better understand what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I found this brief and cute music video about onomatopoeia. Ill alert 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 fascinating concerns. A few of them have to do with things that I havent considered in a long time. Some of them arent simple to address in a manner that they can comprehend. And some 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 finest to describe that it is a word like “moo” that is developed from the noise 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 one of Next Vistas many student video development contests.