EXTON, Pa. - In Chester County, one fourth grade class was decked out in Phillies gear for MLB Opening Day "Phestivities."Dorothy Schaller is a fourth grade teacher at Exton Elementary.
She said it’s become an annual tradition to center the school day around all things Phillies and baseball to celebrate the start of a new season."We started science today with force and motion and a video about baseball.
For math they are researching... do higher paid teams actually have better records," said Schaller. "I have all the papers hanging around the room of the World Series run in 2009, playoffs of 2010 and the entire run this year.
We end our day reading a book about Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson and the challenges they overcame based on their backgrounds, but how baseball brought them together."Student Alexa Voorhees walked us through one of the assignments where students have to give a report on what they have learned."This is my script where I’m going to be reading on this camera, and this is the paper where it has all the numbers of percentages," said Voorhees. "Are the teams with the higher salaries the better team players?"The entire classroom was decorated in Phillies Red with some keepsakes dating back decades.