Communication Skills - Week 1

The beginning of February means it's time to learn about Communication Skills! We started working on the Build Skills in Communication section of the Program and the Business Communications Badge.

Each girl has been asked to bring in a piece of writing she has done and we will be putting them together into a unit newsletter booklet to showcase their work!

We began with our usual opening ceremony, followed by an active game chosen and led by the evening's Active Living Patrol.

Our first activity was to learn how to write a formal letter.  We talked about letter writing in general and how different types of letters are needed for different situations. As a group, we then wrote a letter asking someone to visit out unit. A 'tips' sheet has been emailed to parents and girls are to write their own letters for the badge. The other take-home activity for this badge is to use the internet to find 3 pieces of information and send the answers to a Guider in an email.


Once our letter was completed, we moved onto Advertising activities. After briefly discussing where we find advertisements, each Patrol was challenged to come up with an event and create a poster and TV or Radio commercial for it.


After presenting their posters and commercials, the Patrols continued working on their Story Sacks from last week, completing this activity.

We ended with a short campfire and closed with Taps.