Hey, ya’ll! Today’s my first day! As always, I have such nerves and kind of can’t wait until the routine has been established. A few weeks ago I made a few T-shirts to wear in my classroom, so I decided to link up with Monday Made It and share them with you.
To make these shirts, I used the following tools:
- PowerPoint – I changed the page setup to 16 in. by 16 in. so that it would upload to Vistaprint in a high quality square image.
- Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Designs and Sweet Shoppe Designs Fonts
- JW Illustrations and Betsy Rainbow Clip Art
- Vistaprint – I ordered during their semi-annual sale, so I think I got a pretty good deal. Does anyone else know of a great online website for printing individual T-shirts?
So here are the shirts. This one I am wearing today.
“Hello! I am Sra. Carro and I have the best job in the world. I am your teacher.” Awwwww! I put a heart right where we live in South Carolina. |
I teach 4th grade Spanish immersion, so my students need a lot of encouragement and guidance in developing their second language of Spanish. The rest of my shirts were created for that purpose.
“Speak Spanish (please).” I am always looking for strategies to motivate my students to always stay in Spanish mode. Hopefully this shirt will help! |
“I know the answer.” Students have such a hard time with the first person verb conjugation. If you speak Spanish, you know exactly what I mean. |
“I have a mustache.” Ok, I really don’t exactly, but this is another shirt to help with a commonly incorrectly conjugated verb. |
“I’m bilingual. What’s your superpower?” Another motivator T-shirt to encourage students to develop their second language. |
I think during every Vistaprint sale, I will try to make a few more. There are so many skills we can reinforce just through what we wear – the alphabet, numbers, vocabulary, character, language, etc. – and hopefully these shirts will be effective this year. I’ll keep you posted. 🙂
Have you done something like this before?
For all of my Spanish teacher friends, be sure to visit my Spanish page, filled with freebies and resources!
Tabitha Carro
Bridget Hilinski says
Those are so adorable! You should sell them!
I've been wondering about making t-shirts as well (for a good deal, as you can imagine). The best recommendation I had was a local shop and they don't do online. I feel like there has to be some great resource for it!
Bridget
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