The Ultimate Calendar Templates

Say hello to your new favorite way to stay organized, on task, and maybe even a little obsessed with checking things off.

This digital calendar comes with three tabs:

•  Monthly Overview – See the whole month at a glance

•  Weekly Breakdown – Focus in on one week at a time with flexible categories

•  Work Week Breakdown – Focus in on just Monday-Friday with flexible categories

 Directions: Monthly Calendar Tab

Before you do anything…
Make a copy of the tab! That way you can reuse this template month after month and always start fresh.

How to use:

1. Use the dropdowns at the top to select your month and year.

2. Dates will automatically fill in for that month.

3. Fill in your checklist for each day—classroom tasks, business goals, resources, whatever you need to keep track of.

4. Check off each box as you go (yes, it’s just as satisfying here as on paper).

 Pro Tip: Make a copy before filling things in to create a clean monthly tracker library!

 Directions: Weekly and Work Week Calendar Tabs

Same rule applies first: make a copy of the tab before editing.

How to use:

1. Use the dropdown menus to pick a month and year.
2. Click the Sunday date to update the week—this will auto-populate the rest of the dates.
3. Fill in each Category row with your own labels—think:

• Morning / Afternoon / Evening

• School / TPT / Personal

• Priority / Admin / Prep

4. Use the checkboxes as your daily tracker. Want to color-code it further? Go wild.

Why This Bonus Makes Sense for HTS

Hot Teacher Summer is all about saving you time and helping you show up consistently… whether that’s for your classroom, your TPT store, or your sanity.

This template keeps everything in one easy-to-access spot, and because it’s in Google Sheets, you can:

• Duplicate it each month/week

• Track your progress over time

• Stay organized without reinventing your systems

It’s perfect for batching your TPT work, mapping out content plans, or simply getting your life together… one checkbox at a time.

*After the video was recorded we added in an additional tab with a Monday-Friday week only.  This tab works just like the Sunday-Saturday tab.

CLICK HERE to access!

Ship Sinker Bonus Pack

We are SO incredibly thankful to Kristina L from @its_all_integral for sharing an updated version of the Ship Sinker Activity… along with a tutorial! 

It’s always exciting to see how teachers take a template and make it their own, but it’s next-level when someone is generous enough to share their version with the community to help others grow and learn.

This is what makes the Hot Teacher Summer crew so special… a supportive, creative, and collaborative community that lifts each other up by sharing ideas, tips, and teacher magic.  We’re so grateful to have you here!

Thank you oh so very much, Kristina! We appreciate you! Don’t forget to send Kristina some much deserved love and give her a follow over on her Instagram too – @its_all_integral.

The template Kristina shared is below along with a bunch of other versions for you to choose from! If you need a refresher on how to edit these templates in full you can get back to that section in the portal by CLICKING HERE.

Ship Sinker – 8 randomized layouts: click here

This template works just like the original version from Week 1, but with a fun twist: there are 8 different layouts! That means when students complete the activity, there will be 8 different boards being played across your classroom. This helps eliminate students sharing ship locations with each other. The template functions the same way as before, but you will now need to add in all 8 layouts.

Response Flexibility

This template allows for more flexible answer formatting. If your activity doesn’t require exact answers, the spreadsheet will still accept correct responses even if students include extra spaces. For example, both “aa” and “a a” would be accepted as correct.

🛠 What to Do on Each Sheet:

• Sheet 2:

  • Add your ship board

  • Input your correct answers

  • Add your hit/miss phrases or images

• Sheets 3–9:

  • Add your new layouts ONLY

  • Update the TRUE/FALSE values accordingly

Ship Sinker – 8 randomized layouts & exact answers: click here

This template works just like the original version from Week 1 also and has the 8 randomized layouts, but this version does not have flexible answers like the one above. This version accepts exact answers.

In this version, when students are working on the activity, there will be 8 different game boards in play across your classroom. This helps prevent students from sharing ship locations with one another.

The template functions the same way as before, but you’ll need to add all 8 layouts manually.

🛠 What to Do on Each Sheet:

• Sheet 2:

  • Add your ship boardInput your correct answers

  • Add your hit/miss phrases or images

• Sheets 3–9:

  • Add your new layouts only

  • Update the TRUE/FALSE values as needed

Ship Sinker – original template – flexible answers:  click here 

This template is the same as the original version from the workshop — there are no randomized layouts, so every student will be working on the same board.

The only difference is that this version includes flexible answer options. That means students’ responses don’t have to be exact. For example, both “aa” and “a a” would be accepted as correct.

Crack the Code Template

Get ready to turn your students into code-breaking pros! In this interactive Google Sheets activity, students will tackle questions in sets of 5. As they work through each set, secret pieces of a mystery code begin to reveal themselves.

After completing all 5 questions in a set, the sheet will auto-check their answers, display their score, and let them know which responses are correct or need a second look. Once they’ve cracked that section’s code (by correcting any mistakes), the next set unlocks automatically.

Students will continue solving and unlocking each stage until the full challenge is complete. It’s self-checking, progress-revealing, and just the right amount of suspense to keep them hooked!

Template: click here

Canva Title: click here (1215px wide x 100px tall)

Canva Question Cards: click here (405px wide x 205px tall)

Canva Code Cards: click here

Canva Code Where: click here 

How this works:  Students will work on questions in sets of 5.  As they work, parts to the “code” will begin to reveal themselves.  After all questions in set 1 are answered and all “code” parts are completed, the spreadsheet will reveal a students score in that section and let them know what is correct/incorrect.  Once students fix their errors, the next section will appear.  Students will continue working until they complete the activity. 

Sheet 1:

• Add a title (text or image)

• add a logo/theme card if you want (text or image)

• Directions 

• In the progress bars, you can change the hex codes to match the colors of your themes

• The code/puzzle students will use to open up new sections

Sheet 2:

• Column B:  Add in your questions (text or image) 

• Column C & D:  Add in your correct answers – if there is only 1 correct answer, you can leave “aa” etc OR change it to gibberish – DO NOT LEAVE IT EMPTY

• Column E:  This is the filler image/text that appears before students are given parts of the puzzle/code

• Column F:  This is the image/text that appears if students answer a question correctly

• Column G:  This is the image/text that appears if students answer a question incorrectly

• Column H:  This is the correct answer for the code that students would be entering to move forward

Sheet 1:

• Check to make sure that all of your answers are correct – change the font if you want, the size, etc.

• Check to make sure that your code pieces pop up correctly with correct/incorrect answers and that when you correctly crack the code the next section pops up

• Make sure that the spreadsheet is working the way that it is supposed to – test it out!

Finishing Details:

• On sheet 2, click the check box in B20.  This will turn everything white.  For extra protections, you can highlight the entire spreadsheet and make the columns super wide and the rows super skinny.  

• Go to Data → and choose Protected Sheets and Ranges.  You will click the + to add a sheet or a range.  You’ll need to click the tab that says Sheet and choose Sheet2 if it is not already chosen in the drop down.  Click Set permissions and then Show a warning when editing this range.  Click done and then hide the tab. 

• On Sheet1, we will follow very similar protections.  Go to Data → and choose Protected Sheets and Ranges.  You will click the + to add a sheet or a range.  You’ll need to click the tab that says Sheet and choose Sheet1 if it is not already chosen in the drop down and click the checkbox that says except certain cells.  Click the grid, then holding down command/control, you’ll need to choose all of the answer spaces and spaces where students will type in their code.  Click Set permissions and then Show a warning when editing this range.  Click done.

Need help with this lesson? Email Lisa at lisa@helloalgebra.com and include the workshop and lesson name so we can help you as quickly as possible.