Welcome! Below you will find the list of hymns, resources for teaching & learning Gregorian chant, and much more!
Music Studies for Year 6:
- September: Little King, So Fair and Sweet
- October: For Christ the King
- November: The Divine Praises (chanted in Latin)
- December: What Lovely Infant Can This Be
- January: Jesus, Teach Me How to Pray
- February: Jesus, Thou Art Coming
- March: O Blessed St. Joseph
- April: The Clouds of Night Are Passed Away
- May: Daily, Daily Sing to Mary
- June: Jesus, Jesus, Come to Me
- July: Hymn to the Holy Wounds
- August: Mary-Likeness
Follow my YouTube playlist for Year 6 Hymns
How to Organize the Music
How do you save and organize all the music you can print? By making a family hymnal! Simply grab a binder, print out the music you love, and add it to the binder!
Design a cover if you’d like to get fancy.
Add tabs for the different Liturgical Seasons and major feasts: Advent, Christmas, the Holy Name, Lent, Easter, Ascension, Christ the King, Sacred Heart, Precious Blood, Holy Trinity, Holy Ghost, the Saints, Blessed Sacrament, Our Lady, All Souls, General
The hymns we will be learning are in the public domain, so any sheet music in the newsletters is legal to print, unless otherwise noted. (If you see errors, please let me know!)
Four Week Basic Schedule:
- If possible, sing everyday at the start of school, at morning prayers, or another set time of family prayer. If the hymn is sung often enough, memorization will come naturally. Try to memorize as much as you can by the end of the month. Although memorization is one goal of these studies, it is much more important to ENJOY singing the hymn together.
- Prep – Print out the music; put it in a binder. (See how to make a Family Hymnal above.) Briefly look over the history of the hymn, tune, composer, lyricist, time period, etc. to get ideas about additional assignments, if desired.
- Week 1 – Introduce the hymn and its history. Listen to the audio, and sing along. Choose which, if any, additional assignments will be given, and assign. Flexibility, interest, age, musical ability etc. will determine which type of assignment is best.
- Weeks 2 – 4 – Complete additional assignment(s) if/as desired. Sing and memorize. Review other hymns. Finish up Copywork and Verse Illustrations.
Incorporating Hymn Study into Language Arts
- Copywork – copy a verse or the chorus Here is a blank template you can use month to month!
- Dictation
- Choose a favorite stanza and enter it in a personal journal
- Define any new vocabulary words
- Narration – have your student tell you what the hymn is about in his own words
Incorporating Hymn Study into History
- Read the biographies of the composers and writers
- Locate birthplaces on a globe
- What else was happening in the world/country of origin when it was composed?
- Make a page for your Book of Centuries or add it to a Timeline
Gregorian Chant
Options in case you’d like to focus on learning to read Gregorian Chant: