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).
I Will Sing of My Redeemer
Jesus Shall Reign
Be Thou My Vision
Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
Rock of Ages
Blest Be the Tie That Binds
Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
I Surrender All
Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus
We’re Marching to Zion
Angels We Have Heard on High
Away in a Manger
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
I Need Thee Every Hour
O, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
More Love to Thee
Breathe On Me Breath of God
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
And Can it Be?
My Hope Has Found a Resting Place
There is a Fountain
O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go
Christ the Lord is Risen Today
Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Praise the Savior
O Worship the King, All Glorious Above
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Jesus Loves Me, This I Kno
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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 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.
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.
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