The article analyzes the implementation of patriotic education in the content of elementary school lesson work. It has been established that the upbringing of patriotism is one of the priority aspects of the national upbringing system and involves the formation of patriotic feelings, love for its people, a deep understanding of civic duty, and a willingness to defend the national interests of the Motherland. Examples of tasks and exercises in elementary education disciplines designed to educate children by patriots are considered. As, in the Concept of national patriotic education of children and youth it is stated that important patriotic qualities in children of primary school age appear through the prism of educational subjects of elementary school, in particular mother tongue, literary reading (through texts), mathematics (through the condition of mathematical problem) natural sciences (familiarization with traditions, respectful attitude to nature), work training (familiarization with traditional folk crafts, production of vignettes of different regions of Ukraine, decoration with different embroidery techniques ), musical art (comprehending the intonational peculiarities of music of the Ukrainian people), visual arts (forming a culture of feelings). An important place is given to the educational subject "I in the world", aimed at socializing the personality of the younger student, his patriotic and civic education. A program of Ukrainian patriotic upbringing of children and student youth, which outlines the content and basic tendencies of patriotic upbringing of the person, demonstrates that “at an early school age, it is important to shape a child's ability to recognize himself or herself as a member of a family, family, and child group; as a student, city or village resident; nurture her love for her home, school, street, her country, her nature, her native word, life, traditions [1,33]. Modern scholars distinguish the following structural components of a sense of patriotism: spiritual and moral experience and love for their native land; humanistic universal and national values; moral and aesthetic ideals of personality; creative and transformative activity for the benefit of the Motherland.