We sing hymns at STAR Homeschool Community every week. You can also sing hymns at home! In our home, we sing two hymns per day. If we sing all of these hymns over the four cycles of the GLC curriculum, our family will learn more than one hundred hymns. Little by little, it adds up!

Hymns to Sing at Home

This is the list of hymns to be sung at home during this cycle, and a schedule of which hymns to sing each week is below (the PDF). 

1. For the Beauty of the Earth
2. Eternal Father Strong to Save
3. Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
4. What Can Wash Away My Sin (Nothing But the Blood)
5. It is Well with My Soul
6. Jesus Paid it All
7. Come Thou Almighty King
8. My Jesus, I Love Thee
9. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
10. O Little Town of Bethlehem
11. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
12. The First Noel
13. O Come All Ye Faithful
14. Amazing Grace
15. The Old Rugged Cross
16. The God of Abraham Praise
17. Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken
18. My Faith Looks Up to Thee
19. Thine Be the Glory
20. O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus
21. Day By Day
22. He Leadeth Me
23. Abide with Me
24. How Great Thou Art
25. Nearer My God to Thee
26. When the Roll is Called Up Yonder
27. Battle Hymn of the Republic
28. Blessed Assurance

Download the syllabus and sing hymns with your children as many days of the week as you are able:

I have scheduled two hymns per week for twenty eight weeks for families who participate in a community.

You can download the pdf here:

Hymns to Study

If you would also like to study hymns, you will want to purchase one or more of the following books and download the attached pdf. There is one hymn per week scheduled, with page numbers in several books.

Choose from the following books. My very favorite hymn books are the Hymns for a Kid’s Heart books by Joni Eareckson Tada. They are out of print now, but well worth it if you can find a copy!

Amazing Grace: 366 Inspiring Hymn Stories for Daily Devotions by Kenneth W. Osbeck

There are readings assigned in this book for twenty-seven of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.

Be Still, My Soul: The Inspiring Stories behind 175 of the Most-Loved Hymns by Randy Peterson

There are readings assigned in this book for twenty-two out of twenty-eight books in this cycle. This is the book that Form 4 & 5 students will be reading in Cycle 4.

101 Hymn Stories by Kenneth W. Osbeck

There are readings assigned in this book for seventeen of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.

101 More Hymn Stories by Kenneth W. Osbeck

There are readings assigned in this book for four of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.

Timeless Hymns for Family Worship: Bringing Gospel-Centered Moments into your Home by Joni Eareckson Tada and Bobbie Wolgemuth

There are readings assigned in this book for three of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.

Our Hymns, Our Heritage by David Leeman

There are readings assigned in this book for fourteen of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.

Then Sings My Soul by Robert J. Morgan

There are readings assigned in this book for thirteen of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.

Hymns for a Kid’s Heart vol 1 by Joni Eareckson Tada and Bobbie Wolgemuth**

There are readings assigned in this book for three of the twenty-seven hymns in this cycle. This is one of my favorite hymn study books for children.

Hymns for a Kid’s Heart vol 2 by Joni Eareckson Tada and Bobbie Wolgemuth**

There are readings assigned in this book for ten of the twenty-seven hymns in this cycle. This is one of my favorite hymn study books for children.

Hymns for a Kid’s Heart vol 3 by Joni Eareckson Tada and Bobbie Wolgemuth**

There is a reading assigned in this book for one of the twenty-seven hymns in this cycle. This is one of my favorite hymn study books for children.

Passion Hymns for a Kid’s Heart (Hymns for a Kid’s Heart vol. 4 by Bobbie Wolgemuth and Joni Eareckson Tada

There are readings assigned in this book for four of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle. This is one of my favorite hymn study books for children.

 O Worship the King by John MacArthur and Joni Eareckson Tada

There is a reading assigned in this book for two of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.

Heritage Hymns Vol. 1

There is a reading assigned in this book for four of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.

Heritage Hymns Vol. 2

There is a reading assigned in this book for three of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.

Still Singing: Hymn Stories for Every Season

There is a reading assigned in this book for five of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle. This hymn book comes with a tin whistle to learn the hymns.

Singing the Great Hymns (Simply Charlotte Mason)

There is a reading assigned in this book for five of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.

Mr. Pipes Comes to America by Douglas Bond

This book does not line up with the “Hymns to Study,” but it is a fun book about hymns and it does include some of the hymns in Cycle 4. It is scheduled at a pace of about eight pages per week.

Download the syllabus here:

Hymns Forms 4 & 5