I live in an interesting area – Bedford, IN. Bedford is known as “Limestone Capital of the World” There are many limestone quarries located in the area. Bedford limestone is also called Indiana limestone. Limestone has been a major part of the local commerce over the years. It is quite common to see large semi […]
Whoa – oh- oh- self control! Dr. David Erikson is quoted as say, “Controlling your children is never the real goal. Teaching our children self control is the real goal.” In my last post, I talked about using musical cues in the classroom. Over the years, I have written a lot of songs about skills […]
Things can certainly change quickly in life! This is one of those moments in history where the change affects our whole world! Who would have guessed that we all would be facing a pandemic just a few weeks ago? Did we even fathom what a pandemic really is? One of the hardest things about this […]
Every March 1st, schools across country celebrate “Read Across America Day”! We are celebrating the creative writer of children’s books, Theodore Seuss Gisel, a.k.a Dr. Seuss. Theodore was born in 1904 and died in 1991 at the age of 87. Theodore, better know as “Ted” to his friends, was a magazine cartoonist who officially took […]
The dictionary defines a shadow as, “a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.” Shadows are such an interesting phenomena! What is it about seeing our shadow cast that makes us want to make hand puppets, dance or shiver in the night with fright? Shadows are the ideas for songs, movies, books, and even puppets! When our youngest daughter Caitlyn was one year […]
Make new friends, But keep the old, One is silver and the other gold! Friends are one of the most important choices we make in life. The above picture is of a group of girls I grew up with. We have sung together our whole lives! My Mom organized our first singing group when we […]
Music! It’s always been a part of my life! Both of my parents were musical. My father had a deep, bass voice. Mom played both piano and organ. She wrote many songs over the years and sang in several groups at church. My mother started giving me piano lessons at age 4. I sang in […]
Caitlyn here! Last week I spent some time in Indiana with Mrs. Muncy (who goes by mom to me) to get some final details done for booking travel and working on the puppets. It was a lot more work than we could’ve imagined to make puppets from scratch, which is the case for any new […]
This website is the new and improved home of Mrs. Muncy’s Musical Menagerie. Who is Mrs. Muncy you might ask? She is Becky Muncy, an award-winning musician and an elementary school music teacher in Bedford, Indiana. In addition to teaching music at school, she teaches character education through music, and the use of puppets. Mrs. […]