New Addition to the Art Room

Starting today, Monday September 19, the art room has a class pet! Our new friend is a crested ghecko. Crested gheckos are originally from a small island called New Caledonia. This island is in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. If you are looking for it on the world map, find the continent/country Australia and look to the right. Crested Gheckos were thought to be extinct until 1994 when they were rediscovered on the Isle of Pines, and now they have become a popular pet.

There are several different types of gheckos. Ours is called a crested ghecko because of the ridge that runs from above e

ach eye, down to its tail. They kind of make it look like it has eyelashes. Gheckos like to climb and can jump short distances. In the wild, they eat insects and fruit. We will be feeding ours a mix made from dried fruit, and sometimes we will put some crickets in the cage for a yummy treat.

This week everyone will meet our new friend and learn a little bit about it. Every student will also have a chance to submit a name for our ghecko. All name ideas should be art related, so research some art terms, artists or artwork and find something that would make a cool name for our class pet. Our ghecko is too young to tell whether it is a boy or a girl, so you can look for names that would work for both.

I hope everyone will be excited to meet our new friend, and it will be a source of excitement and inspiration in our art room.

Photograph taken from gheckoforums.net