Sentences with phrase «little school work»

Did some grocery shopping and other errands, went for a couple great outdoor runs, paddled for a solid hour along the Skokie lagoon in a hunter green kayak, grilled salmon one day and burgers another, worked a little on my tan, and did very little school work.

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I liked seeing it there, blinking optimistically on my computer screen, but it felt a little like getting an A on a school project that I hadn't really worked at.

For the millions of us who stared at Windows XP desktops for hours every day for work and school, there's a certain nostalgia now for the old Windows user interface, before the flat design ethos of Windows 8 squashed everything into neat little boxes that are multicoloured without being that, well, colourful.

According to the Fast Company article, «Study Finds Work - Life Balance Could Be a Matter of Life and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that people who work in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die sooWork - Life Balance Could Be a Matter of Life and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that people who work in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die soowork in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die soowork life were 15.4 % more likely to die sooner.

Of course, if you work in an area with an open enrollment, perhaps the parents would be happy to drive their children to the better schools and live a little farther away in order to have that extra room.

The City is already working in cooperation with the School Boards to set up first - time home buyers housing on surplus school sites around Edmonton, but with little surplus school land in the core, they need to look at other opSchool Boards to set up first - time home buyers housing on surplus school sites around Edmonton, but with little surplus school land in the core, they need to look at other opschool sites around Edmonton, but with little surplus school land in the core, they need to look at other opschool land in the core, they need to look at other options.

She explained: «I think we need to look at the way our schools work and the way that we enable our children to grow up and give them a chance to be children for a little bit longer.»

Perhaps it's a regular program of school or work or household chores: get up, take a shower, get dressed, eat breakfast, prop yourself up with a little caffeine, head to whatever it is you do every day, then move through the regular routine.

One little gem: «Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works.

Granted, we have a (very beloved) baby - sitter for our littlest girl two mornings a week while the older two are at school, so that I can make phone calls, do interviews, and work uninterrupted for a bit of time, but I am usually at home, trying to get in a full - time job at the edges of our life.

The school is being accused of offering fake classes to athletes — that require very little work — so that they could maintain their NCAA eligibility.

Such is the first, superficial impression: our schools, like our churches and our ministers, have no clear conception of what they are doing but are carrying on traditional actions, making separate responses to various pressures exerted by churches and society, contriving uneasy compromises among many values, engaging in little quarrels symptomatic of undefined issues, trying to improve their work by adjusting minor parts of the academic machine or by changing the specifications of the raw material to be treated.

I know this sounds a little fancy for a quick before work or school breakfast, but the beauty of the dish is that you can pre-make a few and just leave them in your fridge until you're ready to go.

This little trick is helpful when you have a chunk of time earlier in the day to work on dinner, since focusing on meal prep at «the witching hour» (AKA, 5:00 p.m. at our house) sometimes feels next to impossible between after school activities, homework, sibling bickering, and end - of - day toddler meltdowns.

I haven't had a lot of time to dedicate to the blog lately (school, work, work, school) but I took a little time off last week and was able to get in some baking!

«My experience at that point in time had been working in the warehouse, working with the truck drivers, going to school and getting a little bit of outside sales experience in the summer filling in for salespeople,» Wright remembers.

I was working full time, going to culinary school and had a little kid in school, so I guess I just threw them in a box.

Friday night was a night for winding down after a long week of work and school and we took a little more time to make a meal together because we just had a bit more time.

The ginger - yogourt adds a great little kick, and this is a super dish to pack up individually to take to work / school.

I decided to create this easy vegetarian recipe for our little Lu who loves carrot but not zucchini so much It's perfect cut into wedges and makes a great healthy addition to kids school or grownups work lunchboxes with a side of fresh fruit.

Mintel believes that's due to «mothers hurrying to get children ready for school, while also trying to prepare themselves for work and having little time to fuss over breakfast.»

If there's anything I have learned in the past three quarters of going to school while working full - time, it's how to feed myself good food with little to no fuss.

The school is working with other great employers, such as Grand America and Little America, on similar programs that will be announced soon.

The son of Polish immigrants, he worked his way through school by holding numerous jobs and «sleeping very little.»

The Little League Sports coaches who work on behalf of the Liverpool FC Foundation at the school let me join in their session.

When I got to work, I searched the wires and my suspicion came true; the teens were part of a NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) trip, and my heart sank a little.

The pants are cute and it is odd to be afraid of them, and the little girl who was afraid of them will probably get over it soon and her mother and the school teachers should work with her about not being afraid of cartoons on leggings.

Up to now, I've been working twenty hours a week and going to school full time, which has tended to work out where I am with my child traditional dad hours: I'm home in time for a little play before dinner and bedtime, and we are immersed in each other for the weekend.

So, I suppose, the regulations, in theory, try to be broad enough to allow for individualization, narrow enough for everyone to be treated fairly, and work for the little school in a very rural, isolated area or a huge metro area.

However, our Au Pair does note that he's very hungry when he returns from school, so the two of them brainstormed that he would first eat, then do the math, then have a little play break and then we do the reading work and then nap... they will try that tomorrow.

Sometimes, it's easy to get so caught up with work, sports, school, and other outside activities, that there's little time to spend together as a family.

I'm under - employed, putting what little money I have from part - time work into rent, bills, and occasional grad - school tuition.

I knew abstractly my little ones were busy at school, but trying to replicate their regular agenda and learning space is a lot of work.

I have 3 little ones in elementary work full time school full time and husband din military.

They're taking extra classes at school, working part - time jobs, playing sports, and maintaining hectic after - school schedules with little to no extra time.

These little beauties will cheer up any task, at school, home, or work!

The Kid Collection covers topics for littler students like being nervous for the first day of school to praising hard work as well as subjects for tweens and teens like peer pressure and making good friend choices.

As a sociologist who frequently works in schools, Kimberly Moss - Dobbins has seen many children who could use a little extra attention after the dismissal bell has rung.

We have also just re-established our rules (our kids are 6, 4 and 2): No screens before school No leappads during the week No technology at the dinning table No TV before homework (but the little ones get to watch it when hubby is working so I get 1:1 with my eldest to actually do homework) No screens at the weekend before bedrooms are tidy

I'm a high school counselor, which means I work with parents every day who could use a little grace in their lives.

Little ones can start as early as 4 months with music - based classes, and 2 1/2 - to 6 - year - olds take three - hour play school classes that can be scheduled a la carte on whatever days work best.

You may have limited family time to spend with your child (by the time you get home from work and you eat dinner together as a family and go through your evening routines — make sure homework is done, school bags are packed for the next day, teeth are brushed, baths are done, and so on — there's very little time to sit and review schoolwork with your child); but you can try to look over what your child is doing with his tutor, and try to use free time on the weekends to incorporate fun into learning by playing math games, reading fun books and helping your child pick out books he likes to encourage reading and more.

She lives in Urbandale and is currently taking a break from teaching with Des Moines Public Schools to take care of her little ones and focus on doula work.

SNA is also calling for the USDA and the US Department of Education to work cooperatively to ensure that students have sufficient time to eat and enjoy their school meals This is a huge issue — with some students getting as little as 10 minutes of actual eating time for lunch — and one for which SNA's legislative clout could be well applied to benefit students across the country.

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I have a snack bin full of individually wrapped granola bars for my hungry boys to devour after school, my refrigerator holds little tubes of yogurt and string cheese for packing lunches, my dryer hums constantly after work drying loads of laundry I wish I had time to hang instead.

But I have worked my way through some of the school lunch «staples» like granola bars and energy bars so she can feel a little less «crunchy kid» and a little more like her friends.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

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These eight districts joined our original five districts — Dallas ISD (Dallas, TX), Little Rock (AR), Memphis City Schools (TN), Orange County Public Schools (FL), and Prince George's County Public Schools (MD)-- in the work of increasing access to, and participation in, the federally - funded School Breakfast Program, with the goal of reducing childhood hunger, and improving health and educational outcome for students.