Ben put in a good effort this morning but was not feeling "it". He expressed how he wished he had math class a little later in the day so he had time for his brain to warm up. I validated his feelings and kept it moving and he rolled with it. We worked on factoring out the Greatest Common Factor with given polynomials. Ben had to consider what is the largest number that can be factored out of all given terms. He also considered what is the largest exponent is that could be factored out of both. He had difficulty considering this but was able to understand once I showed him how to do it. We will need to spend another day on this, scaffolding the concept of GCF.