December 2026 holiday · Grade 5
Grade 5 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 5, 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 6, the KPSEA year (Daily Nation, 18 October 2026, citing the Ministry of Education’s 2026 calendar).
Nothing here is exam drilling. The pack revisits the Grade 5 ideas that Grade 6 builds on: large numbers, fractions with renaming, millilitres and grams in Mathematics, the breathing system and heat transfer in Science, and question tags and the future tense in English. Every question is new, written for this pack in Kenyan settings and matched to a strand in the KICD Grade 5 designs. Answers sit under each set behind a “Show answers” button.
Holiday Tuition Is Banned, Home Revision Is Not
Under section 37 of the Basic Education Act, 2013, “No pupil shall be subjected to holiday tuition”. Breaking it can mean a fine of up to KSh 100,000, a year in prison, or both. That rule targets organised classes during the holiday. Revising at home with a parent is not holiday tuition, and this pack is for home use only.
How to Use This Pack
- Twenty to thirty minutes, three or four days a week. Let the rest of the day be for play, chores and family.
- Let your child try alone first, then mark together. Ask “how did you get that?” for every answer, right or wrong.
- Make the measurement real. Read the millilitres on a cooking-oil bottle and the grams on a packet of flour before doing those questions.
- Mark online or on paper. Online, tick or cross each answer and the score is saved. The printable PDF has all the answers at the back.
Free sample
Mathematics
Strands covered: Numbers (whole numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, simple equations) and Measurement (length, volume, capacity, mass, time, money).
- (a) In 538,207, what is the place value of the digit 3, and what is its total value? (b) Write 24,605 in words.
- (a) Round 46,382 to the nearest hundred and to the nearest thousand. (b) Which of these numbers can be divided exactly by 5: 135, 240, 412, 905?
- A county gave out 245,780 tree seedlings in March and 318,465 in April. How many seedlings did it give out in the two months?
- The county’s target is to plant 600,000 trees this year. So far, 372,548 have been planted. How many more trees must be planted to reach the target?
- A bakery in Nakuru packs 36 loaves in each crate. How many loaves are in 245 crates?
- At a sports day, 672 learners are put into 24 equal teams. How many learners are in each team?
- (a) Write 12/18 in its simplest form. (b) Which is bigger, 3/4 or 5/8? (c) Work out 2/9 + 5/9. (d) Work out 1/2 + 1/4.
- (a) Arrange from the smallest to the largest: 0.305, 0.35, 0.053. (b) Work out 2.375 + 1.45.
- (a) Kerubo thinks of a number. She adds 15 and gets 42. Write an equation and find the number. (b) Solve 4y = 36.
- Convert: (a) 2 litres 350 ml into millilitres, (b) 3 kg 400 g into grams, (c) 4 km 250 m into metres, (d) 3 minutes 40 seconds into seconds.
- A box of chalk is 10 cm long, 6 cm wide and 5 cm high. Find its volume.
- Wafula has KSh 1,000 to buy school items for next term. His budget: exercise books KSh 350, pens KSh 120, a ruler KSh 50, a geometrical set KSh 280. (a) What is the total? (b) How much is left? (c) Give one service that a bank offers to people like Wafula’s parents.
Show answers: Mathematics
- (a) Place value: ten thousands; total value: 30,000. (b) Twenty-four thousand, six hundred and five.
- (a) 46,400 (nearest hundred) and 46,000 (nearest thousand). (b) 135, 240 and 905 (they end in 0 or 5).
- 245,780 + 318,465 = 564,245 seedlings.
- 600,000 − 372,548 = 227,452 trees (check: 372,548 + 227,452 = 600,000).
- 245 × 36 = 7,350 + 1,470 = 8,820 loaves.
- 672 ÷ 24 = 28 learners (check: 24 × 28 = 672).
- (a) Divide top and bottom by 6: 2/3. (b) 3/4 = 6/8, which is more than 5/8, so 3/4. (c) 7/9. (d) 1/2 = 2/4, so 2/4 + 1/4 = 3/4.
- (a) 0.053, 0.305, 0.35 (compare as 0.053, 0.305, 0.350). (b) 2.375 + 1.450 = 3.825.
- (a) n + 15 = 42, so n = 42 − 15 = 27. (b) y = 36 ÷ 4 = 9.
- (a) 2,350 ml (b) 3,400 g (c) 4,250 m (d) 3 × 60 + 40 = 220 seconds.
- Volume = l × w × h = 10 × 6 × 5 = 300 cm³.
- (a) 350 + 120 + 50 + 280 = KSh 800. (b) 1,000 − 800 = KSh 200. (c) For example: keeping money safe (savings accounts), giving loans, transferring money, changing foreign currency.
English
Strands covered: Listening and Speaking, Reading (comprehension, meaning from context), Grammar in Use (possessive pronouns, future time, interrogatives, question tags, prepositions of time, nouns used only in the plural) and Writing.
11 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Kiswahili
8 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Science and Technology
Strands covered: Living Things and Their Environment (classification of plants, vertebrates, the human breathing system), Mixtures (separating mixtures, water pollution) and Force and Energy (floating and sinking, sound, heat transfer).
9 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Agriculture and Nutrition
Strands covered: Conservation of Resources (soil), Food Production Processes (compost, sowing, poultry), Nutrition and Hygiene Practices.
7 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Social Studies
Strands covered: Natural and Built Environments (Kenya’s position, neighbours and main physical features, historic sites), Resources and Economic Activities, and Political Systems and Citizenship.
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 mixing, rhythm, instrument making), Performing and Displaying (ball games, indigenous instruments) and Appreciation.
6 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Getting Ready for Grade 6
Grade 6 is the KPSEA year. Read our Grade 6 guide and KPSEA explained early in the year so there are no surprises, and see how school-based assessment adds to the final score. For short sets that mark themselves, try the Grade 5 CBC Challenge. More packs are on the holiday homework hub.
Sources
- Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development, Grade 5 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.