The document describes how the Comfort family had to rearrange their seating as more and more guests arrived for their dinner party. They started with 8 tables that seated 32 people total. As family members arrived with their children and partners, they had to push tables together to accommodate more guests. In the end, they rearranged back to the original 8 single tables to seat all 32 invited guests.

1. Having fun with Perimeter!

2. Perimeter The distance around a shape, measured in units of length.

3. Let’s Read

4. Mr. and Mrs. Comfort are going to have a dinner party………..

5. The Comforts have many friends and family………

6. They invited 32 people………

7. They are going to make spaghetti and meatballs ………...

8. They made: 16 loaves of garlic bread Eight pounds of pasta 96 meatballs

9. The Comforts rented 8 tables and 32 chairs. Each table had four chairs.

10. Their daughter and her husband arrived with 2 children.

11. They want to push 2 tables together so they can sit with Mr. and Mrs. Comfort.

12. Will they still have enough chairs for everyone?

13. Yes but…………….

14. Mrs. Comforts brother and his wife, their daughter , her husband, and their twin boys showed up!

15. They wanted to sit together so, they pushed two more tables together.

16. Think about it

17. Will there be enough chairs…………

18. NO

19. They pushed 2 more tables together to make room BUT…..

20. Was there enough?

21. Before they could get the chairs rearranged……

22. The Comfort’s next door neighbors with their daughter and son came.

23. Let’s think about this??? The comfort’s their daughter her husband and their two kids make 6 people. Mrs. Comforts brother and his wife, their daughter , her husband, and their twin boys showed up! That is 6 more people. Next came the Comfort’s next door neighbors and their son and daughter. That’s 4 more people. Altogether there are 16 people so far.

24. How can we seat 16 people? They decided to make two groups of four chairs.

25. Will this work? LET’S SEE…………..

26. This made room for 16 people.

27. But they invited 32 people.

28. The next thing you know.. Mr. Comforts mom and Dad came.

29. Where will they sit???

30. The Comfort’s next door neighbor suggested they put all eight tables in a long line.

31. There are now 18 people. Will this work? Let’s see……..

33. Yes! It worked!

34. BUT……………….

35. The next thing you know Mrs. Comfort’s mother and father arrived.

36. Where will they sit?

37. Gramps suggested that they split the long line of tables in half and they will all have a seat.

38. Will this work? Lets see……

39. We had 16 people and 4 more came so there are 20 people now.

40. So will this work?

41. YES! This seats 20 people.

42. BUT………..

43. No sooner than they all sat down the Comfort’s son , his wife, and twin daughters came.

44. Where will they sit?

45. The comforts son suggested that they divide the two lines of table into 4 pairs.

46. Will this work? Let’s see…..

47. There were 20 people and 4 more came. There are now 24 people.

48. This seats 24 people.

49. Did it work?

50. But………….

51. As everyone got settled.. Mrs. Comforts sister , her husband and their triplets. The triplets brought their boyfriends. So we had 24 people and 8 more came. So now there are 32 people.

52. Where will they sit?

53. Mrs. Comforts brother suggested that they divide the 4 pairs of tables into 8 single tables.

54. This sits 32 people!

55. Mrs. Comfort sighs and says “ that’s how I had it in the first place” !