Ben did not want to work today. He had legos on his desk.. I asked what he was making, he said, "I don't know." He had food on his desk, I asked him what it was, he said, "Food." I told him one day when he's not tired, he's happy, he feels good, I'm going to be the happiest teacher ever! He told me I'd never feel that way because he's in an ever-changing state of hormones and growth.
So I put on a metallica song and started writing exponent problems on his desk. He asked me about the song and we started talking about it. Then I pointed to the (8x)^0 on his desk and asked him what it equaled. He answered 0. I reminded him that anything to the 0 power is always 1. He asked why. I said I don't know, we should watch a video about it tomorrow. He started to open up a bit more. I was able to ask him a few more exponent problems.