Parent Night 1/21/10

Mark your calendar to attend our Parent Night to discuss Standard Student Attire. Click the link below for a printable flyer

Native Americans Visit Bailey

On December 2, 2009, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Honyumptewa gave a presentation in Ms. Moorehead's Visual Art Exploration classes: Period 2-Beginning Art and Period 3-Advanced Art.

The students were informed about two distinguished cultures: Hopi (Mr. Honyumptewa) and Navajo (Mrs. Honyumptewa). They shared celebrations, history, jewelry, artifacts, and other information relative to their particular ethnic groups.

The visitors are parents of one of our own Bailey Bluejay students. Art is an educational vital-link that provides a bridge for the community and the school to connect.

Congratulations Kaylee B!

On October 22nd, Kaylee performed in the the Middle School Honor Choir at UNLV. She was selected after undergoing a rigorous audition and extra rehearsals. Kaylee stepped up to this challenge and met it with persistence and passion.

Ms. Morris (Bailey MS Choir Director) said, "I was never prouder in my life than I was last night when Kaylee was singing on stage, with the passion and joy in her face."

Hispanic American Leaders from

Ms.Moorehead's Art students

The Baileys Visit Bailey!

Students Visit the

Great Unconformity!

What is the Great Unconformity?

An unconformity is a buried erosional surface. That is, soil and rock that was once present was eroded over a very long period of time by wind and rain. This process still happens today. The mountains that surround Las Vegas may someday, millions of years from now, be flat ground or gently rolling hills.

This unconformity was first identified by a geologist named Clarence Dutton in 1882. He found it in the layers of rock at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Dutton probably named it "Great" because it was in the Grand Canyon. He certainly didn't know how very old the bottom rocks were or how much time it took for erosion to occur and new rock to be deposited there, because there was no way to get an absolute date (as opposed to relative date) on the rocks.

Much later on, geologists finally developed ways to figure out the absolute age of rocks. Geologists used radiometric* dating to find out that the granite and schist rocks are 1.7 billion years old (1,700,000,000)! The sandstone rock is 550 million years old. That means that about 1.2 billion years of the earth's history eroded away before the sand that made the sandstone was deposited. 1,200,000,000 years! Wow, that's a lot of time! Now we can say it really is a "Great" unconformity.

*Radiometric dating has to do with how unstable some elements' atoms are. Sometimes they lose parts and become a different kind of element. Scientists compare the ratio of the parent element to the daughter element and can figure out how old a rock is.