The article is devoted to modern technologies of organization the process of psychological and pedagogical support of upbringing children-orphans and children left without parental care, foster families. Particularly, basic approaches, criteria and stage-by-stage maintenance of organization of this process are exposed in the article. Analysis of the types of psycho-pedagogical support of orphans are given in this article: guardianship (trusteeship), foster family; also there are the main directions of psycho- educational support of children-orphans in the family. The stages of prevention and rehabilitation work on socio-pedagogical and psychological support are considered by authors. The basic conditions of organization of the socio-pedagogical support of children-orphans and children left without parental care in foster families are also defined in this article.

The article is devoted to improve the efficiency of the formation activity in the early school years. In particular, it discloses approaches graphic activity as a means of increasing the activity. The article describes the manifestation of activity in various areas, the problem of its formation. We describe the types of activity in the early school years, which have different levels of development. The authors have examined the application of the system of graphic activity in the educational process, as a means to improve the efficiency of the formation activity.