--- title: Watch These Kids Deliver the Best Surprise to Teacher Battling Cancer description: The choir sang Martina McBride's cancer-anthem "I'm Gonna Love You Through It" to a teacher recently diagnosed with breast cancer. canonical: https://time.com/3967560/ps22-chorus-breast-cancer-tribute/ author: Katy Osborn article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-22T16:01:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:22:26.030Z og:title: Watch These Kids Deliver the Best Surprise to Teacher Battling Cancer og:description: They made her cry og:url: https://time.com/3967560/ps22-chorus-breast-cancer-tribute/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte75b5e8cc9a091aa/69885bf2a988cacca46b3901/pss22-chorus.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: pss-22-chorus og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch These Kids Deliver the Best Surprise to Teacher Battling Cancer twitter:description: They made her cry twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte75b5e8cc9a091aa/69885bf2a988cacca46b3901/pss22-chorus.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch These Kids Deliver the Best Surprise to a Teacher Battling Breast Cancer by [Katy Osborn](https://time.com/author/katy-osborn/) ## Katy Osborn Jul 22, 2015 4:01 PM UTC  Members of the PS22 Chorus attend The Trevor Project's 2013 "TrevorLIVE" Event on June 17, 2013 in New York City. Members of the PS22 Chorus attend The Trevor Project's 2013 "TrevorLIVE" Event on June 17, 2013 in New York City.Ilya S. Savenok—2013 Getty Images by [Katy Osborn](https://time.com/author/katy-osborn/) ## Katy Osborn Jul 22, 2015 4:01 PM UTC The kids in the chorus at PS 22 have an annual tradition for their last practice: they perform a song with their director, Gregg Breinberg. But this year the Staten Island elementary school choir went for a tearjerker, singing Martina McBride’s cancer-anthem “I’m Gonna Love You Through It” to a teacher recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Teacher Adriana Lopez, who can be seen in the video watching the group of fifth-graders serenade her from a seat on the bleachers, was wise enough to bring a wad of tissues to the performance. This isn’t the first time the PS 22 chorus has gone viral pulling on our heartstrings: their popular YouTube channel, which now has close to 70 million views, featured a [tribute to the the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S%5FEPZkukPzE)back in 2012. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3967560/ps22-chorus-breast-cancer-tribute/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3967560/ps22-chorus-breast-cancer-tribute/"},"headline":"Watch These Kids Deliver the Best Surprise to a Teacher Battling Breast Cancer","datePublished":"2015-07-22T16:01:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:26.030Z","description":"They made her cry","url":"https://time.com/3967560/ps22-chorus-breast-cancer-tribute/","keywords":["Newsfeed","New York","Appreciation"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte75b5e8cc9a091aa/69885bf2a988cacca46b3901/pss22-chorus.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katy Osborn","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katy-osborn/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte75b5e8cc9a091aa/69885bf2a988cacca46b3901/pss22-chorus.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"pss-22-chorus","caption":"pss-22-chorus","creditText":"Ilya S. Savenok—2013 Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3967560/ps22-chorus-breast-cancer-tribute/","name":"Watch These Kids Deliver the Best Surprise to a Teacher Battling Breast Cancer"}}]}] ```