How many elementary school students can say they’ve performed with a Grammy Award-winning rock band?

Now a group of students at a Chula Vista elementary school have those bragging rights after a surprise performance with Switchfoot. The San Diego-based group dropped in on Casillas Elementary School on Wednesday to perform with students in a choir class and their teacher. And it’s all recorded on video.

“They do not know we’re coming,” said guitarist Drew Shirley before walking into the classroom of unsuspecting kids.

Music teacher Jonathan Seligman had taught the class to sing “Float” off Switchfoot’s latest album “Where the Light Shines Through,” and the students were singing it as the band walked through the door, instruments in hand, to join them.

One student was so excited after the surprise, he appeared to be crying.

“You guys sound amazing,” lead singer Jon Foreman told the kids after the performance.

Then he invited the sixth graders in the class to perform the song with the band at Switchfoot Bro-Am, an annual concert and surf contest Switchfoot holds at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas. This year’s event will take place on June 24.

This isn’t the first time this year the group has made an appearance at a local elementary school. The band — made up of San Diegans Jon and Tim Foreman, Jerome Fontamillas, Chad Butler and Drew Shirley — visited Greg Rogers Elementary School in Chula Vista in February.

Switchfoot raised $25,000 for the VH1 Save The Music Program to restore the school’s band program.

Switchfoot’s Facebook Live video of the Casillas Elementary surprise had been viewed about 82,000 times by mid Friday afternoon. The Chula Vista Elementary School District Facebook page also posted a video from another angle that had been viewed about 14,000 times by then.

The videos also include a second full performance of “Float” with the students, the teacher and the band.

“Congratulations to the students and Switchfoot for connecting with the students and making dreams happen,” wrote one Facebook commenter. “Go Chula Vista!”

“What a memory for these kids and their teacher!” wrote another.

“I have to say, out of the many, many times that we’ve played that song, those two times are probably my favorite times,” Jon Foreman told the kids.

They only had one question for the band after the performances.

“Can we get your autograph?”

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