Ranch Round Up
Friday, May 16th, 3:05pm – 7:05pm
Jerabek is getting ready for its 45th Annual Ranch Round Up on Friday, May 16th!
This annual community wide celebration features fun for the whole family, including: Carnival Games, Bounce Houses, Pony Rides, Musical Cakes, a Talent Show, Raffles, a Silent Auction and much more!
Jerabek Family and Community Volunteers—We Need Your Help!
Please sign up to make this end of year event awesome! Sign up COMING SOON.
The Ranch Round Up is only possible with your help! We are looking for volunteers for these roles: Committee Chairs, Adult Day of Volunteers, and Teen Volunteers (we can provide proof for community service requirements). Click here to sign up to be a volunteer, or email us at rru@jerabekffo.org.
Thank you!
Ranch Roundup FAQs
What is Ranch Round Up?
Ranch Round Up (RRU) is a community-wide celebration and carnival that has been a Jerabek tradition for the last 45 years. It features carnival games, pony rides, mini petting zoo, inflatables, and a student talent show, as well as a musical cakes competition, a silent auction for baskets donated by each classroom, and raffles for dates with your favorite teachers and other prizes. Food is also sold at the event, we will have Everbowl and Yogurt Heaven in addition to our grill station!
What can I access with a wristband?
Unlimited use of bounce houses, slides, and obstacle courses. Adults do not need a wristband unless they want to use the inflatables.
What do the tickets buy me?
You can use tickets for carnival games, pony rides/brushing ponies, mini goat petting zoo, face painting, hoops truck, and participating in musical cakes. Tickets can also be used for BBQ.
What are the opportunity box raffles?
Our amazing volunteers have obtained donations consisting of local restaurant gift cards, museum tickets, theme park passes, and much much more! You can buy opportunity box tickets and enter to win one of these prizes.
What are Teacher Dates?
Buy a teacher date ticket and enter to win a raffle to win a special lunch date with your favorite Jerabek teacher! All teacher
What is the Cake Contest and Musical Cakes?
RRU’s cake contest is an annual tradition. Student cake contest entrants will donate their homemade cakes to the musical cake contest. This year’s theme is: Everything Sports! Cakes for judging need to arrive at school between 8:00-8:30 am on Friday, May 16th. The cakes will be judged by all 5th graders in three categories: best for grade level, most original, and best use of theme. Musical cake contest winners can pick a cake to take home. Flyers will be dropped off in the coming weeks to sign up. Return slips by May 7th. Any questions, reach Carlie McVay at carliemcvay@gmail.com.
What can you tell me about the talent show?
Students will showcase their talents before the Ranch Round Up audience throughout the event. Talent show auditions will be held on Thursday May 1st and Fri, May 2nd from 3:15-5:00 pm in B-24. Students can also submit audition tapes in lieu of an in person audition to Brittany Fuller at jerabektalent@gmail.com by May 2nd.
This all sounds great—where can I buy tickets and wristbands?
You can buy presale tickets and wristbands from April 21 until May 9th here: https://www.zeffy.com/
RRU sounds great and I’d love to get involved.
Great! Click here to sign up to be a volunteer. If you want to get involved before the event, please email us at rru@jerabekffo.org.
How does RRU help Jerabek?
While RRU is primarily a community celebration, any proceeds go to Jerabek’s Family Faculty Organization (FFO) which supports Jerabek programs, including art programs, the STEAM lab, and the math curriculum.
