December 2026 holiday · Grade 4
Grade 4 holiday homework, ready to print or do online
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- 68 questions
- Answers with working
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This is a December 2026 holiday homework pack for Grade 4, for parents to use at home. Schools began closing for the long holiday on 15 October 2026, and children are home until early January 2027, when your child moves up to Grade 5 (Daily Nation, 18 October 2026, citing the Ministry of Education’s 2026 calendar).
Grade 4 is the first year of Upper Primary, so this pack goes back over the year’s big ideas without rushing ahead: numbers up to ten thousand, fractions and money in Mathematics, the digestive system and states of matter in Science, and the tenses your child met in English and Kiswahili. Every question is new, written for this pack in Kenyan settings and matched to a strand in the KICD Grade 4 designs. Answers sit under each set behind a “Show answers” button, so your child can try first.
Holiday Tuition Is Banned, Home Revision Is Not
Section 37 of the Basic Education Act, 2013 says “No pupil shall be subjected to holiday tuition”, with penalties of up to KSh 100,000, a year in prison, or both. The law is aimed at organised holiday classes. A child doing a short set of questions at home with a parent is not holiday tuition, and this pack is meant only for that.
How to Use This Pack
- Fifteen to twenty-five minutes at a time is plenty for a nine- or ten-year-old. One learning area per sitting, three or four days a week.
- Read the question with your child before they start. Many mistakes at this age come from missing one word in the instruction.
- Keep it hands-on. Use real coins for the money questions, a kitchen jug for litres and a packet of sugar for kilograms.
- Mark together. Open the answers, tick what is right, and talk about one mistake. Online, the ticks are saved; on paper, the PDF puts the answers at the back.
Free sample
Mathematics
Strands covered: Numbers (whole numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, use of letters) and Measurement (length, mass, time, money).
- In the number 47,362, what is the place value of the digit 7, and what is its total value? Then write 806 in words.
- Arrange these numbers from the smallest to the largest: 709, 790, 97, 970. Then round 384 to the nearest ten.
- A school library had 2,478 books. The parents’ association bought 1,365 more. How many books does the library have now?
- A tree nursery had 4,305 seedlings. Farmers bought 2,768 of them. How many seedlings were left?
- A church hall has 34 rows of chairs with 23 chairs in each row. How many chairs are there altogether?
- Mama shares 87 sweets equally among 4 children. How many sweets does each child get, and how many are left over?
- (a) Change 11/4 into a mixed fraction. (b) Change 1 2/5 into an improper fraction.
- (a) Write “seven tenths” and “thirty-five hundredths” as decimals. (b) Which is bigger, 0.4 or 0.38?
- (a) Simplify 3b + 5b − 2b. (b) Juma has x pencils. His aunt gives him 4 more. Write an expression for the number of pencils he has now.
- (a) Change 3 m 45 cm into centimetres. (b) Find the perimeter of a rectangular plot that is 8 m long and 5 m wide.
- A matatu leaves Eldoret at 7:45 a.m. and reaches Kitale at 9:10 a.m. How long is the journey?
- Grandma’s shopping list: a bar of soap KSh 120, a loaf of bread KSh 65 and a packet of milk KSh 60. (a) What is the total cost? (b) What change does she get from a KSh 500 note? (c) How many cents are in KSh 3?
Show answers: Mathematics
- Place value: thousands; total value: 7,000. 806 is eight hundred and six.
- 97, 709, 790, 970. 384 rounded to the nearest ten is 380 (the ones digit, 4, is less than 5).
- 2,478 + 1,365 = 3,843 books.
- 4,305 − 2,768 = 1,537 seedlings (check: 2,768 + 1,537 = 4,305).
- 34 × 23 = 680 + 102 = 782 chairs.
- 87 ÷ 4 = 21 remainder 3: 21 sweets each, 3 left over (check: 4 × 21 = 84, and 84 + 3 = 87).
- (a) 11 ÷ 4 = 2 remainder 3, so 2 3/4. (b) 1 × 5 + 2 = 7, so 7/5.
- (a) 0.7 and 0.35. (b) 0.4 is bigger: 0.4 is the same as 0.40, and 40 hundredths is more than 38 hundredths.
- (a) 6b. (b) x + 4.
- (a) 3 m = 300 cm, so 345 cm. (b) 8 + 5 + 8 + 5 = 26 m.
- From 7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. is 1 hour; 8:45 a.m. to 9:10 a.m. is 25 minutes. Total: 1 hour 25 minutes.
- (a) 120 + 65 + 60 = KSh 245. (b) 500 − 245 = KSh 255. (c) KSh 1 = 100 cents, so 300 cents.
English
Strands covered: Listening and Speaking, Reading (comprehension), Grammar in Use (progressive and perfect aspect, comparative adjectives, pronouns, adverbs, prepositions) and Writing.
10 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Kiswahili
9 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Science and Technology
Strands covered: Living Things and Their Environment (animals, the human digestive system), Matter (states of matter, solid waste, conserving water) and Force and Energy (light, heat, force).
9 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Agriculture and Nutrition
Strands covered: Conservation of Resources (soil and water), Food Production (kitchen gardens, small domestic animals), Nutrition and Hygiene Practices.
7 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Social Studies
Strands covered: Natural and Built Environments (maps and direction, physical features), People and Social Organisation, Resources and Economic Activities, and Citizenship and Governance.
8 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Christian Religious Education (CRE)
Strands covered: Creation, The Bible, The Life of Jesus Christ and Christian Living. (Use the Good News Bible.) An IRE pack is planned separately.
7 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Creative Arts
Strands covered: Creating and Executing (colour, drawing, rhythm, craft), Performing and Displaying (athletics, percussion) and Appreciation.
6 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Getting Ready for Grade 5
In Grade 5, Mathematics moves on to numbers in the hundreds of thousands, millilitres and grams, and English adds the future tense with “will” and “shall”. Read our Grade 5 guide and school-based assessment explained: the Grade 4 and 5 tasks count towards the KPSEA score in Grade 6. For quick practice that marks itself, try the Grade 4 CBC Challenge. More packs are on the holiday homework hub.
Sources
- Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development, Grade 4 curriculum designs (revised 2024): Mathematics, Science and Technology and English (checked strand by strand); Kiswahili, Social Studies, Agriculture and Nutrition, CRE and Creative Arts.
- Basic Education Act No. 14 of 2013, section 37 (holiday tuition).
- Daily Nation, “70 days without school”, 18 October 2026.