Free ‘Wimpy Kid’ screening is Nov. 4 at North Bend Theater
Published 5:20 pm Monday, October 31, 2011
As the film “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” illustrates, it’s not too early for fifth-graders (and their families) to get ready for middle school. Fifth-graders face special social pressures, especially as they enter middle school.
To help prepare them and their parents for this transition, Encompass is offering a free, targeted, evening workshop series for these families, called “The Big Transition to Middle School,” starting Monday, Nov. 7, 2011.
To promote the series, Encompass and the North Bend Theatre are presenting a free screening of 2010 movie hit, “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, 2011.
The Encompass series, which runs seven Monday evenings in a row through Dec. 19, 2011, will help fifth-graders learn how to choose positive friends, healthy ways to deal with stress, peer-pressure resistance skills and positive management of emotions.
Both parents and the fifth-graders attend this seven-night series. Each session has an hour in which parents and the fifth-graders meet separately and an hour when they meet together. A free meal is served. Up to 15 families can register.
The series is offered free of charge. Funding is provided by King County Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Program, with funds from the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery.
Interested parents can register at www.encompassnw.org. Childcare is available. To reserve a childcare spot, contact Beymer at 425.888.2777 or kerry.beymer@encompassnw.org.
