Elementary Education Subjects

Subjects considered core to the "modern elementary school" in 1920.


[15] The studies which have come to characterize the modern elementary school may now be classified under the following headings:

Drill subjects

Reading
Writing
Spelling
Language
Arithmetic

Content subjects

Literature
Geography
History
Civic Studies
Manners and Conduct
Nature Study
Agriculture

Expression subjects

Kindergarten Work
Music
Manual Arts
Domestic Arts
Plays and Games
School Gardening
Vocational Subjects

From: THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION - BY ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY - EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE AND PROGRESS CONSIDERED AS A PHASE OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND SPREAD OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION