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Early Finisher Activities: Plan a Sleepover Project

Sleepover planning performance task where students budget food and activities, schedule timed events, map sleeping arrangements and explain the total cost in a letter to their parents.
Grades
Grades 3–5, Elementary
Pages
22
File type
PDF
Preparation
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Updated Oct 02, 2026

Subject
Math, Order Of Operations
Topic
enrichment, project
Resource types
Worksheets & Printables, Word Problems, Activities, Projects
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What's inside this resource

Give your fast-finishing math students an engaging project with this 22-page sleepover planning performance task. Students will practice critical thinking and problem-solving as they plan a fun sleepover event. The multi-step project integrates reading, writing, money math, timetelling, measurement, and more into 11 open-ended problems. As students choose party themes, create invitations, plan menus, schedule activities, calculate costs, and determine sleeping arrangements, they will use addition, multiplication, area models, and other skills. This enrichment resource is perfect for gift3ed students or whole-class projects. The real-world scenario encourages creativity and perseverance through authentic tasks. Use it to engage early finishers or for test prep with its integrated Standards for Mathematical Practice. The detailed project can extend over multiple lessons with the included scoring rubric.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Calculate costs from menu and activity price tables
  • Schedule activities using times from a planning table
  • Explain budget choices in writing, showing all calculations

Teaching tips

  • With the teacher page suggesting five days to two weeks, the planning pages can be spread across several math periods.

Skills covered

  • Budgeting — totaling food and activity costs in planning tables
  • Spatial planning — mapping out where each guest will sleep

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Money math
  • Budgeting
  • Time
  • Measurement
  • Explanatory writing

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