Main problem: In the latest Addresses of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to the people of Kazakhstan it is indicated that “systemic problems in education. Crises of mental development, age and life crises are widely represented in a variety of psychological studies. The gap, the contradiction between the actual and potential forms of coexistence create, according to various scientists, the phenomenon of a crisis, when a child, a youth, an adult strive for something, not knowing what their heart desires. Age crises accompany a person throughout life. For some they pass smoothly, for others they are very difficult. The form, duration and severity of crisis situations can vary depending on the individual characteristics of a person, social conditions, and the peculiarities of upbringing in the family. Age crisis situations are natural and necessary for development. A more realistic life position that arises as a result of such crises helps a person to find a new, relatively stable form of relationships with the outside world. Life crisis situations are the subject of close attention of psychologists. Dividing human life into periods, stages, they draw attention to the difficulties of transition from one stage to another. Purpose: to consider the problems of adaptation to crisis situations in primary school students. Methods: the method of ascending from the abstract to the concrete, the method of transforming concrete images of objects based on their abstract essence, the speculative language of schematic images of thought. Results, their significance: in relation to life and the world of activity, a person's personal potential is manifested in actions in the positions of «individual», «student» and «subject». Certainty in thinking is given by the use of vectors of movement in the logic of descending from the concrete to the abstract, ascending from the abstract to the concrete, as well as in their combination