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).
- For the Beauty of the Earth
- Eternal Father Strong to Save
- Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
- What Can Wash Away My Sin (Nothing But the Blood)
- It is Well with My Soul
- Jesus Paid it All
- Come Thou Almighty King
- My Jesus, I Love Thee
- O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
- The First Noel
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- Amazing Grace
- The Old Rugged Cross
- The God of Abraham Praise
- Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken
- My Faith Looks Up to Thee
- Thine Be the Glory
- O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus
- Day By Day
- He Leadeth Me
- Abide with Me
- How Great Thou Art
- Nearer My God to Thee
- When the Roll is Called Up Yonder
- Battle Hymn of the Republic
- 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!
There are readings assigned in this book for twenty-seven of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.
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.
There are readings assigned in this book for seventeen of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.
There are readings assigned in this book for four of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.
There are readings assigned in this book for three of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.
There are readings assigned in this book for fourteen of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.
There are readings assigned in this book for thirteen of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There is a reading assigned in this book for two of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.
There is a reading assigned in this book for four of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.
There is a reading assigned in this book for three of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.
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.
There is a reading assigned in this book for five of the twenty-eight hymns in this cycle.
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
