In part one, I talked about the two things I couldn't live without in my classroom - my Google Slides agenda and printed student warm-up book. To read part one and get my two essentials, click here . As an introverted student, I remember being a nervous mess trying to keep my cool and act like I knew what I was doing on the first day of school. I dutifully would complete all tasks without gusto for the sake of - gasp - looking like I enjoyed school! I now plan the first day of school with those memories fresh in my mind. Luckily, my school doesn't do a ton of schedule-changing in the first week. This allows me to get essential tasks done on the first day and avoid unnecessary fluff. In case you missed it in the last post, here is the agenda for the first day of school: I let students pick their seats on the first day mostly because I *hate* making seating charts. I let them know of my seat-chart-making disgust. I try to go as long as possible without having a chart.