Class T-Shirt Design Idea

Today I sat down in the office to do some curriculum writing, and ended up
designing my class t-shirt  for this year.  I get side tracked easily, and besides, I'm super excited about this coming up year.
Next school year I will be teaching one class Reading, Writing and Social Studies, and for the second half of the day I will be coaching - teachers, not PE, as my brother-in-law thought. :)
I am so excited about this, because this is the direction I have always wanted to go with my career ever since i got my Masters in Reading!  I would really love to be doing it full time, but it is nice to still be in the classroom - I think I'd miss it.
Many schools have two PFs(Peer Facilitators) - A Reading Coach and a Math Coach.  My school only has one, so in order for both coaching duties to be filled, my sweet friend and PF, Erica and I will be sharing duties.  She will be teaching the Math class while I'm coaching, and I'll be teaching Language Arts while she is coaching.  I am so excited about this opportunity!!  Erica is awesome, and I know we will work well together.
I began to think as we were planning for next year - My class will no longer be "Mrs. Ramirez's Rockets", They have two teachers now - two homeroom teachers.  Hmmm...Erica's class used to be "Mrs. Moreno's Monkeys" so merge the two together - I thought:

Ramirez and Moreno's Rowdy Monkeys?

Ramirez and Moreno's Reading Monkeys?

Why not use both of our Mascots?  Ramirez and Moreno's Rocketing Monkeys!

I began to google images of Monkeys on a Rocket, thinking it would be a hopeless cause...Who creates pictures of monkeys on Rockets??

Well Apparently This Lady does.  Lots of them.

 She must have a thing for monkeys.  Her blog is full of monkeys - on cars, rockets, scooters, etc.  And sooo cute!  Rather than using her image though, I put a piece of paper up to my laptop screen and traced it. That way I could add my own colors and design.
I also printed out our names in a cute font that I got from www. flamingtext.com.  I love this site and use it a lot to find cute fonts for things in my classroom.  You just copy and paste it into your word document.  Here's the print:

Then I traced the rocketing monkey into the background and colored it:

Isn't he cute??  So, I'll hafta check with Erica and see what she thinks about it, and then we can take it to the Printers!  Such fun combining mascots!  Hmm...what else could we do???