Saturday, July 19, 2008

Hymns 2008-09

Every month we learn a new hymn and a praise chorus. This is in lieu of poetry study. I'm not an appreciator of poetry, which may surprise some of you. I find it better to spend our time memorizing songs that will hopefully be entrenched in my children's minds to come out at times of need.

How many Christian songs can YOU sing without music? I don't mean "sing along with" but I mean actually sing all the words with an approximation of a melody. We can sing a few hymns now and I KNOW that these come back to serve me in moments when I need to focus on the Lord.

I do plan to use the hymns for copywork, vocabulary study, theology, and more during this coming school year. We haven't done much of this before, although one year we did make a lapbook of that year's hymns.

So, here are the hymns and praise choruses for the upcoming school year.

August Praise Him! Praise Him! Why So Downcast
September The Solid Rock Mighty is our God
October The Old Rugged Cross Great and Mighty is He
November Trust and Obey Jesus is Alive
December O Come All Ye Faithful ???
January A New Name in Glory Change My Heart O God
February Since Jesus Came Into My Heart Shine Jesus Shine
March Redeemed He is the King of Kings
April In The Garden Ancient of Days
May At Calvary God Will Make a Way
June Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus ???
July The Star-Spangled Banner ???

1 comment:

Unknown said...

This is truly a great idea. And I do think that studying hymns is a good substitute for poetry. :-)

I've added this post to my Delicious bookmarks. Thanks!

So many of the old hymns have wonderful theology! It's a great way to teach. I wonder if anyone has a set out there to buy -- with CD, music, copywork pages, etc.