Singing together is an integral aspect of Waldorf education. Teachers sing with students throughout the school day, from morning to main lesson to music specialty classes. Music nourishes the developing emotional and soul life of middle childhood and strengthen capacities that stretch into academics such as listening, identifying tone/mood, rhythm, mathematical patterns, and more. Along with singing, students learn to play pentatonic and diatonic flutes, recorder and stringed instruments (violin, viola, cello) through the span of 1st through 8th grades