Ben said he had a stomach ache this morning. I encouraged him to push past it and work with me. He did but was distracted. We worked on exponent properties, a concept we've spent a lot of time on. I gave him an activity with basic problems to see if he could recall the properties. He struggled a bit, but with help was able to use what he learned from one problem to simplify the next. I wrote out the rules again so he could see why we add powers when multiplying and multiply powers when we have a power raised to a power.