December 2026 holiday · Grade 6
Grade 6 holiday homework, ready to print or do online
- 8 learning areas
- 66 questions
- Answers with working
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This is a December 2026 holiday homework pack for Grade 6, for parents to use at home. Schools began closing for the long holiday on 15 October 2026, so most children are already at home. Grade 6 candidates still sit the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) from 26 to 28 October, so start this pack after the last paper. The holiday runs until early January 2027, when your child moves up to Grade 7 in Junior School (Daily Nation, 18 October 2026, citing the Ministry of Education’s 2026 calendar).
Once KPSEA is behind them, this pack is about keeping skills warm and building confidence for Junior School, where the number of learning areas rises from eight to nine. Each set is short, original, written in Kenyan settings, and matched to a strand in the KICD Grade 6 curriculum designs. Answers and marking notes are 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. That law targets organised holiday classes. A parent sitting with a child at the kitchen table for half an hour is not holiday tuition, and this pack is meant only for that kind of home revision.
How to Use This Pack
- Twenty to thirty minutes a day, a few days a week, is enough at this age. Mix it with play, chores and family time.
- Read the questions aloud together if your child struggles with long instructions. Reading the question is a skill in itself.
- Use real things. Weigh sugar on the kitchen scale, measure the compound with a tape measure, count change from the shop.
- Print it if you prefer paper: the printable PDF (download it from the box at the top of this page) puts all the answers at the back.
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Mathematics
Strands covered: Numbers (whole numbers, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, inequalities), Measurement (length, area, capacity, time, money), Geometry (angles) and Data Handling (bar graphs).
- Write 708,415 in words. Then round it to the nearest thousand.
- Work out 2,346 × 23.
- Work out 7,644 ÷ 12.
- Add 3/4 + 2/3. Give your answer as a mixed number.
- Work out 2.75 + 0.6 − 1.08.
- Find the values of x that make x + 5 > 12 true. Give two whole numbers that work.
- A rectangular shamba is 24 m long and 15 m wide. Find (a) its area, (b) its perimeter.
- How many 250 ml cups of tea can be poured from a full 2-litre flask?
- A bus leaves Nairobi at 8:45 a.m. and reaches Nakuru at 11:20 a.m. How long is the journey? Write both times in the 24-hour clock.
- Mama buys 3 kg of sugar at KSh 160 per kg and 2 packets of maize flour at KSh 145 each. She pays with a KSh 1,000 note. How much change does she get?
- Two angles lie on a straight line. One is 65°. What is the other?
- A school canteen sold these fruits in one day: bananas 40, oranges 25, mangoes 35, pawpaw slices 10. Draw a bar graph on squared paper. Which fruit sold most, and how many fruits were sold altogether?
Show answers: Mathematics
- Seven hundred and eight thousand, four hundred and fifteen. Rounded to the nearest thousand: 708,000.
- 2,346 × 20 = 46,920 and 2,346 × 3 = 7,038, so the answer is 53,958.
- 637 (check: 12 × 637 = 7,644).
- 9/12 + 8/12 = 17/12 = 1 5/12.
- 2.75 + 0.60 = 3.35; 3.35 − 1.08 = 2.27.
- x > 7. Any two whole numbers bigger than 7, for example 8 and 9.
- (a) 24 × 15 = 360 m². (b) 2 × (24 + 15) = 78 m.
- 2 litres = 2,000 ml; 2,000 ÷ 250 = 8 cups.
- 2 hours 35 minutes. 0845 h and 1120 h.
- 3 × 160 = 480; 2 × 145 = 290; total 770. Change: 1,000 − 770 = KSh 230.
- 180° − 65° = 115°.
- Bananas sold most. Total: 40 + 25 + 35 + 10 = 110. Check the bars: equal widths, equal gaps, labelled axes and a title.
English
Strands covered: Listening and Speaking, Reading (comprehension), Grammar in Use and Writing.
9 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Kiswahili
7 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Science and Technology
Strands covered: Living Things and Their Environment (fungi, invertebrates, the human circulatory system), Matter (change of state, composition of air) and Force and Energy (light, levers, slopes).
8 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Agriculture and Nutrition
Strands covered: Conservation of Resources (soil erosion, water, wild animals), Food Production Processes (small domestic animals, preserving crop products, cooking), Hygiene Practices (grooming, stain removal) and Production Techniques (moist bed garden).
7 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Social Studies
Strands covered: Natural and Built Environments in Eastern Africa, People and Social Organisation, Resources and Economic Activities, and Political Systems and Governance.
9 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Christian Religious Education (CRE)
Strands covered: Creation, the Bible (the Ten Commandments, Samson, Elisha, Jacob), the Life of Jesus Christ, the Church and Christian Living Today. An IRE pack is planned separately.
8 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Creative Arts
Strands covered: Creating and Executing (string instruments and drawing, rhythm, weaving, volleyball, melody), Performing and Displaying (athletics, descant recorder, pottery) and Appreciation.
6 questions with answers and a marking guide.
Getting Ready for Grade 7
In January your child starts Junior School, with new learning areas such as Integrated Science and Pre-Technical Studies. Read our Grade 7 guide, the KPSEA explainer (20% of the KPSEA score counts towards senior school placement later), and junior school fees and capitation. More packs are on the holiday homework hub.
Sources
- Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development, Grade 6 curriculum designs (revised 2024): Mathematics, Science and Technology, Social Studies, Agriculture and Nutrition, CRE, Creative Arts, English and Kiswahili.
- Basic Education Act No. 14 of 2013, section 37 (holiday tuition).
- Daily Nation, “70 days without school”, 18 October 2026.