Cycle 1 Hymns to Sing and Study

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. The Doxology
  2. Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
  3. Shepherd of Tender Youth
  4. Standing on the Promises
  5. Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
  6. Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart
  7. This is My Father’s World
  8. His Eye is on the Sparrow
  9. I Love to Tell the Story
  10. Come Ye, Disconsolate
  11. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
  12. Holy, Holy, Holy
  13. Jesus, Lover of My Soul
  14. Silent Night! Holy Night!
  15. In Christ there is No East or West
  16. Our God, Our Help in Ages Past
  17. Alas and Did My Savior Bleed
  18. All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name
  19. God Moves in a Mysterious Way
  20. All Glory, Laud and Honor
  21. Stand up for Jesus
  22. When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
  23. The Lord is My Shepherd, I’ll Not Want
  24. We Gather Together
  25. Rejoice, the Lord is King!
  26. Great is Thy Faithfulness
  27. Angels From the Realms of Glory
  28. I Sing the Mighty Power of God

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

You can download the pdf here:

If you are singing hymns in a community, I have scheduled two hymns per week for twenty eight weeks for that.

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 all but twenty-three of the hymns in this cycle.

101 Hymn Stories by Kenneth W. Osbeck

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

101 More Hymn Stories by Kenneth W. Osbeck

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

Our Hymns, Our Heritage by David Leeman

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

Then Sings My Soul by Robert J. Morgan

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

Heritage Hymns Vol. 1

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

Heritage Hymns Vol. 2

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

Still Singing: Hymn Stories for Every Season

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

The Accidental Voyage by Douglas Bond

This story about a variety of hymns is scheduled for reading from Week 1 through Week 25.

You can download the pdf here:

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