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 STAR 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. In the Garden
2. When We All Get to Heaven
3. Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
4. How Firm a Foundation
5. Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
6. Trust and Obey
7. A Mighty Fortress is Our God
8. Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
9. Nothing But the Blood of Jesus
10. Onward Christian Soldiers
11. Joy to the World
12. Go Tell it on the Mountain
13. Just As I Am
14. Wonderful Words of Life
15. All Creatures of Our God and King
16. Be Stil My Soul
17. What a Friend We Have in Jesus
18. To God Be the Glory
19. My Hope is Built on Nothing Less (The Solid Rock)
20. Take My Life and Let It Be
21. God of Our Fathers
22. Crown Him With Many Crowns
23. Fairest Lord Jesus
24. Like a River Glorious
25. Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus
26. Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
27. Doxology

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

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

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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 all of the twenty-seven 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 four of the hymns in this cycle.

101 Hymn Stories by Kenneth W. Osbeck

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

101 More Hymn Stories by Kenneth W. Osbeck

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

Our Hymns, Our Heritage by David Leeman

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

Then Sings My Soul by Robert J. Morgan

There are readings assigned in this book for nineteen of the twenty-seven 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 two of the twenty-seven 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.

Books noted with ** are books that I have particularly liked. I like all of the books on the list, but if you’re trying to narrow down the very best books, in my opinion, choose these. 

Mr. Pipes and Psalms and Hymns of the Reformation

This book is scheduled at a pace of about eight pages per week for twenty-seven weeks.

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