Hymns to Sing

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. I Will Sing of My Redeemer
2. Jesus Shall Reign
3. Be Thou My Vision
4. Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
5. Rock of Ages
6. Blest Be the Tie That Binds
7. Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
8. I Surrender All
9. Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus
10. We’re Marching to Zion
11. Angels We Have Heard on High
12. Away in a Manger
13. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
14. I Need Thee Every Hour
15. O, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
16. More Love to Thee
17. Breathe On Me Breath of God
18. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
19. And Can it Be?
20. My Hope Has Found a Resting Place
21. There is a Fountain
22. O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go
23. Christ the Lord is Risen Today
24. Sacred Head, Now Wounded
25. Praise the Savior
26. O Worship the King, All Glorious Above
27. All Things Bright and Beautiful
28. Jesus Loves Me, This I Know

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

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I have also scheduled two hymns per week for twenty eight weeks for singing in a community.

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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 twenty-six 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-five of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.

101 Hymn Stories by Kenneth W. Osbeck

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

101 More Hymn Stories by Kenneth W. Osbeck

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

Our Hymns, Our Heritage by David Leeman

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

Then Sings My Soul by Robert J. Morgan

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

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

There are readings 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.

Hymns for a Kid’s Heart vol 3 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.

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 one 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 are readings assigned in this book for six of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.

Heritage Hymns Vol. 1

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

Heritage Hymns Vol. 2

There is a reading assigned in this book for one 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 and the British Hymn Makers by Douglas Bond

This book is scheduled at a pace of about nine chapters per week for twenty-five weeks.

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