Sentences with phrase «quietly at their desks»

With Noah, I found I could feel him move best while lying on my back at first, and then while sitting very quietly at my desk and focusing on my stomach.

We know that sugar influences behavior; we see it in our kids and know not to give them a lollipop if we want them to read a book quietly at their desks.

I was writing quietly at my desk when suddenly I heard my 15 - year - old daughter cry out.

The most successful and developed cooperatives begin to look quite a bit like schools, with an adult teacher in the front lecturing to rows of students sitting quietly at desks, sometimes hiring experts to teach advanced subjects like calculus, foreign languages, or physics.

Effective teachers know that sitting quietly at their desks for long periods of time is hard for students.

Thirty 8th graders, all of them girls, sit quietly at their desks in Marina Middle School, dissecting Arthur Miller's «The Crucible,» oblivious to the sporadic squeals and bouncing balls on the blacktop outside.

None of this was a problem in the 1950s, when teachers were more likely to stand at the front of the classroom and lecture — and students were expected to listen or work quietly at their desks.

With the ability to choose what becomes part of the story, as opposed to fast - forwarding past videotape of students writing quietly at their desks or throwing spitwads at a neighbor, digital storytelling can offer teacher educators a new way to shape narratives about classrooms.

Four - year - olds need to learn in an environment rich in creativity, play, and exploration, not an environment in which they sit quietly at a desk and recite the alphabet.

Also, it's nice to think that your resume is being read by someone sitting quietly at a desk, giving it his or her fullest attention.

Not exact matches

Moving the meal to the classroom constitutes what Susan called «a better way to do breakfast» because it allows students to get off the bus, pick up their breakfast, put away their belongings, and then sit down quietly to eat at their homeroom desk.

I stirred at 8 am, realising the postman had quietly come and gone, went to the gym, showered, and was at my desk for 8.30 am, thinking I'd got away with it.

Both the stranded six and their quietly noble rescuers, whether chained to a desk at Langley or skulking around Tehran with a muted, saturnine sense of purpose, are regular people in rumpled clothing who are scared, confused, tired, and, again, scared.

Since that day, Stephanie and her parents have been a source of support and encouragement, from cookies baked by Stephanie quietly left on my desk at the end of the day, to a Livestrong bracelet from her mother, to a short written note of encouragement and comradeship from her father.

This morning found them sitting at a cluster of desks chatting quietly.

The problem is that a guest quietly sitting at a desk typing on a laptop would trick the sensor into thinking the room was empty and turn off the air conditioner or heater.